Lucrative college degrees
Posted on July 16, 2006 Comments (7)
Lucrative college degrees, CNN article on NACE’s latest quarterly salary survey of recent college graduates.
Once again Engineering is very well represented with average starting salaries for:
Chemical engineering: $56,335
Computer engineering: $53,651
Electrical engineering: $53,552
Mechanical engineering: $51,732
The article lists no other degrees with an average above $50,000. Engineering education continues to pay off well.
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July 20th, 2006 @ 2:06 pm
Engineering is a very lucrative college degree. This is great information. I work at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, WA. We offer some exciting and innovative engineering and materials science technology degrees and love to hear about this kind of data. If anyone is interested in checking out our engineering program, visit http://engr.edcc.edu.
August 21st, 2006 @ 9:56 pm
[…] Engineers once again are the top paid graduates […]
October 27th, 2006 @ 7:00 pm
This article offers a slight update to Lucrative college degree post from July…
June 5th, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
[…] “salaries had finally surpassed 2001 levels with starting salaries averaging about $57,000 and $66,000, respectively, for engineering undergraduate and master’s degree graduates.”[…]
July 29th, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
Highest average starting salaries: Chemical Engineering $59,361; Civil Engineering $48,509; Computer Engineering $56,201; Computer Science $53,396…
February 23rd, 2008 @ 7:16 pm
I do not think the data provides answers on its own. Given that engineering majors are the highest paid graduates it is not a case that the students options are poor…
May 9th, 2008 @ 10:47 am
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